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TIL that pigeons and doves are the exact same animals.

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9Y997 TIL that in the 1940s-60s, Melbourne's Sun Theatre cinema had a pram room, where babies in their prams were placed and given a number. If a baby started crying, its number was flashed on the screen to alert the parents
d8ea9 TIL: The baby thief Georgia Tann was allowed to operate a black market adoption agency in the US for nearly 30 years. She stole nearly 5000 kids from poor families and adopted them out to rich families. This went on until her death in 1950.
mx0Wy TIL about David Vetter, a child who lived with a severely weakened immune system meaning that he spent the majority of his life inside a sterile bubble. In 1997 researchers from NASA create a specialized space suit for him, allowing him to walk outside his bubble for the first time.
x6Eg7 TIL The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has its own version of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
neaA9 TIL on April's fools day 1997 Pat Sayjack and Alex Trebek switched the shows they were hosting, Pat Sayjack on Jeopardy and Alex Trebek on Wheel of Fortune.